Minding the Gap
Against the Gaps. The Early Bronze Age and the Transition to the Middle Bronze Age in the Northern and Eastern Aegean/Western Anatolia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4534810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ourania Kouka (0000-0002-3434-1626, University of Cyprus, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 569-580 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3764/aja.117.4.0569 |
| OpenAlex | W2186678651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 8 |
Gaps are not desirable in archaeology, whether they refer to cultural gaps or to gaps in research. When Rutter defined a “gap” between the Early Cycladic IIB and Middle Cycladic I/Middle Helladic I assemblages, it was evident that there existed a real gap in archaeological research of the prehistoric landscapes and islandscapes of the northern and eastern Aegean and of western Anatolia, to the south of Troy. This short article discusses the rich archaeological evidence of the Aegean Early Bronze Age that has accumulated over the past 30 years. It emphasizes cultural dialogues that existed between the eastern Aegean Islands and western Anatolian littoral, on the one hand, and between both of these areas and the Cyclades, mainland Greece, and Crete, on the other; these dialogues are obvious in technology (pottery, metallurgy), in the development of trade networks, in the evolution of political and social practices, in symbolic expressions, and finally in the transformation of the parallel lives of the Early Bronze Age Aegean societies. A figure of the plan of the EB I–III settlement phases at the Heraion can be found under this article’s abstract on AJA Online.Join the discussion at http://www.ajaonline.org/forum/1637
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Chalcolithic · CYCLADES · Geography · Mainland · Pottery · Prehistory · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |